knowing your blind spots

“As a leader, 1st, work on yourself- increase your self-awareness. There shouldn’t be any other urgent agenda than this. Get enlightened! Know very well who you’re including your strengths, weaknesses, and blind spots!”
― Assegid Habtewold

Everyone has blind spots in their lives, an area that they are unaware of and how it can impact other people. Some people exploit blind spots to gain control or have an advantage of another person. Finding out what the blind spots are, being aware gives you a chance to live a better life.

In business executives work with coaches to help them reveal their blind spots, poor communications, anger management, overwhelm, time management, focus and more, can derail a career. Knowing what those blind spots are opportunities for getting better results.

Not everyone wants to know what their blind spots are and yet knowing them, being aware of what might cause problems, is valuable. Being blind to what others see can impact relationships, careers and friendships.

What can you do to increase personal awareness?

Ask others to share what they see when you are emotionally stressed. Ask them to share what your strengths and weaknesses are. Those are starting points to revealing the blind spots.

Organizations can have blind spots as well. People come into the organization and adopt the practices and procedures of an organization and over time lose the opportunity to understand why things are done in a certain way.